Bibliography

Here is a bibliography of all books ever written about panoramas or panoramic pictures.

Panorama theater, the painted panorama

• Storia del panorama: La visione totale nella pittura del 19. secolo

Bordini, Silvia, Roma. Officina, 1984.

• Canvas Documentaries - Panoramic Entertainments in Nineteenth-century Australia and New Zealand

Mimi Colligan, Melbourne University Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0-522-85019-7

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• The Panorama, history of a mass medium

Oetterman, Stephan, Zone Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0942299833

• Das Panorama, die Geschichte einer vergessenen Kunst

Bernard Comment, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann GmbH, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87584-941-8

• Augenreisen, Das Panorama in der Schweiz

Editors: Schweizerisches Alpines Museum & Schweizerischer Alpen-Club, Bern 2001, ISBN 3-9520873-6-X

Digital panoramas

• Praxistraining Fotografie: Panorama

Bredenfeld, Thomas, ISBN 978-3827363244, video2brain, Graz / Addison-Wesley, Munich, 2010

Video training, german, 18 hours, DVD

Live video section covering capture techniques and hardware, screencast section about software and production workflow

• Praxisbuch Digitale Panoramafotografie

Bredenfeld, Thomas, ISBN 978-3836212236, Galileo Press, Bonn, 2009, 1st Edition

360 p., german, full color, with DVD

• Digitale Fotopraxis Panoramafotografie

Bredenfeld, Thomas, ISBN 978-3836218610, Galileo Press, Bonn, 2012, 2nd Edition

380 p., german, full color, with DVD

German standard book about the complete workflow of panorama production

book companion website

• 360 Degree Imaging: The Photographers Panoramic Virtual Reality Manual

Andrews, Philip, ISBN 2-88046-732-2

• Assembling Panoramic Photo

Bodin, Bertrand, and others. , Paris, Editions Eyrolles, 2004. ISBN 0596009755

Nice book, nice pictures, mainly Realviz Stitcher related, but interesting and well realized.

• Interactive Panoramas: Techniques for Digital Panoramic Photography

Jacobs, Corinna, Heidelberg (Germania), Springer Verlag, 2004. (English) ISBN 3540211403

German Version: Digitale Panoramen. Tipps, Tricks und Techniken für die Panoramafotografie, 2003. ISBN 3540003002

Nice and detailed book on digital panoramas and objects composing, from shooting to displaying, including hardware and software tips and tricks.

• The QuickTime VR Book

Kitchens, Susan A.,Berkeley, Peachpit Press, 1998. (English) ISBN 0201696843

One of the early book about QTvr panoramas, including detailed manual of QTVR-AS, and detailed QTVR scripting possibilities. One of the early code-bibles.

Film panoramas

• Experiments in 360° Panoptic photography

Dusariez, Michel; Pierroux, Ludovic; Larsen, Lars R. , Bruxelles, Michel DUSARIEZ Editions, 1996

Nice panoramic-format self-printed book of sketches and instrction on how to selfbuild a rotational film panoramic camera. Some really interesting picures, penalized in quality by the selfprint, but may be still font of ispiration.

• Panoramic photography

Meehan, Joseph, New York, Amphoto Books, 1996.

Extremely useful and detailed book about panorama shooting with film, with a detailed listing of panoramic cameras, both rotational and nonrotational, including some custombuilt ones. Meehan touches also important keys about image composition and weight. Some great image.